🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Gaza Road Ridge — Saharonim Spur Tower
Nabataean–Roman (50 BCE–300 CE) · Nabataean
Gaza Road Ridge — Saharonim Spur Tower in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean–Roman (50 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Nabataean.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Gran Saposoa
Gran Saposoa is the name given to a series of ruins in the Andean cloud forests of the Amazonas region of Peru by American explorer Gene Savoy.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
Isimila
Early Stone Age Acheulean (260,000 BP) · Acheulean (Early Homo sapiens arch)
Isimila near Iringa is East Africa's richest Acheulean site, 260,000 BP, on eroded sandstone korongo (gullies) with 260,000 BP Acheulean handaxes 30 cm, cleavers and living floors with…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karahöyük-Elbistan Plains Satellite
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–600 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Melid → Phrygian
Karahöyük-Elbistan Plains Satellite is a 1.6-ha mound 6 km southwest of Karahöyük-Elbistan citadel on the upper Ceyhan plain (1130 m).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Kitakogane Site
Early to Late Jomon 6000–1000 BCE · Early–Late Jomon (Date, Uchiura Bay)
Early to Late Jomon marine midden and ritual site (c.6000–1000 BCE) at Date, Hokkaido — 14.4 ha plateau site with massive shell mound (oyster, Scallop 3 m thick, 2500 m³), 70+ pit dwellings, lacquer…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Kossaima (Kusseima) Sinai Kite Field (North Sinai, Egypt)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian–Beersheva) · Sinai–Negev Late Neolithic (Timnian, Ghassulian)
20 Sinai gateway kites (arms 60–140 m) funneling Ibex through Kossaima Pass — navamis-associated.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
La Galgada
Late Preceramic / Kotosh Tradition (3000 – 1800 BCE) · Kotosh / La Galgada
La Galgada in Ancash, Peru is a Late Preceramic / Kotosh Tradition (3000 – 1800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kotosh / La Galgada culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Las Ventanas
Classic to Epiclassic Chalchihuites (c.300–900 CE); Classic Suchil 300–500 CE, Alta Vista phase 600–800 CE · Chalchihuites (Suchil–Canutillo–Alta Vista) frontier mining–agricultural with Sierra Madre turquoise
Chalchihuites cinnabar–turquoise mining village (c.300–900 CE) with pyramid and ore roasting pits supplying Pueblo Bonito turquoise.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Majes-Sihuas Valley Pampa Geoglyphs (Quilcapampa)
Middle Horizon (Wari expansion) with Early Horizon pathways · Wari / Majes rock-art / Sihuas valley agro-pastoral
Large hill-figure and circle geoglyph field on the inter-valley pampa between Río Majes and Río Sihuas (1,450 m), centered near Quilcapampa Wari town (Middle Horizon). Jennings et al.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Marcahuasi
Wari–Late Intermediate–Inca · Wari–Ychsma with modern megalith folklore
Mythic paramo stone forest (4000 m) 8 km trek from San Pedro de Casta east of Lima, with 40 natural granite monoliths anthropomorphized (Monument of Humanity 25 m, Face of Man 8 m,...
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Dam
Sabaean Kingdom, Early South Arabian (~1750 BCE – 570 CE) · Sabaean (South Arabian, Kingdom of Saba)
Earthfill diversion dam spanning the Wadi Adhanah and flanked by the limestone North and South Sluices with Sabaean monumental inscriptions.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Matara (Metara)
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean to Late Aksumite (800 BCE–800 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean D'MT / pre-Aksumite → Aksumite
10 ha highland caravans town with Hawulti 5.5 m Sabaean obelisk, Aksumite stelai, palace of Kaskase and dam reservoir.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Miculla Geoglyphs & Petroglyph Field (San Francisco de Miculla)
Archaic to Middle Horizon (Tiwanaku–Wari interaction) · Tiwanaku–Huari interface / Tacna coastal–altiplano
>500 boulders and 40+ desert lines (400–1000 CE peak) at Tacna's Caplina desert gateway.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Nazca Puquios Aqueducts
Nasca culture, Early Intermediate (~500 BCE – 600 CE; puquios ~300–600 CE) · Nasca (Nazca)
Unique Andean hydraulic analog to Persian qanats: 36 puquios, each a stone-lined infiltration gallery tapping sub-river gravel aquifers, ventilated by corkscrew stone spirals descending to the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Quebrada Santo Domingo Geoglyphs
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Rock Art of Djelfa — Atlas Saharan
Neolithic to Protohistoric (Bubalus → Bovid pastoral → Libyco-Berber) · Capsian Neolithic pastoralists then Garamantian–Libyco-Berber
Ouled Nail Atlas 1162 ram-engravings 7000–3000 BCE, Bubalus ram 1.2 m with headdress, CapSian cattle pastoral transition.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Sagalassos
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (classical antiquity to c.640 CE earthquake) · Pisidian → Hellenistic → Roman Imperial → Byzantine
Pisidian highland Roman city at 1,600 m with restored Antonine Nymphaeum and cliff theatre.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Este Avenues Geoglyphs (Eastern Approach Corridor)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sillustani
Late Intermediate to Inca 1200–1450 CE · Colla (Aymara) succeeded by Inca
12-m funerary towers in finely jointed stone above lake - Andes highest chullpas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Viracochapampa
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Viracochapampa (Quechua Wiraqucha god + pampa plain) is a vast unfinished Wari grid-city 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in the La Libertad highlands at 3,070 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Wiracochapampa
Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Wiracochapampa in La Libertad, Peru is a Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Wari (Huari) culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Wiracochapampa – Northern Wari Fortress
Middle Horizon Wari Empire (600–750 CE, occupied 600–700) · Wari (Huari) imperial colony
Northernmost major Wari provincial center (600–700 CE, abortive) on Cajabamba road 10 km N of Huamachuco at 3100 m: orthogonal Wari cellular town plan 400×500 m with D-shaped temple, plaza, barracks…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Xom Con
Pleistocene–Holocene Hoabinhian 11,000–8000 BCE · Hoabinhian (Colani)
Colani's Hoabinhian cave — Xóm Cón pebble chopper rock-shelter at Hòa Bình (11–8 ka, Sumatralith).
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Tepe Musiyan (Deh Luran)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Uruk to ED) · Proto-Elamite / Jemdet Nasr
Early highland proto-ziggurat at Tepe Musiyan, Deh Luran — 50×70 m oval platform c.3100 BCE linking Uruk Susiana to Elamite highland terraces.